Military paranoia

America "uses military exchanges with PLA to disrupt China and brainwash politicians". Video producer says same tactics were used to cause Soviet Union collapse in 1991  By Minnie Chan   Liu YazhouInfluential military researchers have accused the United States, in a video they helped produce, of using exchanges between American defence officials and the PLA to undermine the state and corrupt officials.Military experts said the...

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Ethnic Uighurs are facing new police scrutiny in Beijing following Tiananmen attack

By Associated PressUighur jade vendors sell their wares at an outdoor curio market where Chinese police have been checking their IDs everyday since a vehicle attack in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Members of China’s ethnic Uighur community in Beijing say they’re facing stepped-up scrutiny from police following Monday’s deadly vehicle attack at Tiananmen Square in Beijing that killed five people.An SUV plowing into a crowd in Tiananmen...

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Uighur group scorns China Tiananmen 'terrorist' claim

Uighur leader Rebiya Kadeer (L) and Alim Seytoff, pictured on December 10, 2010 being greeted by Nancy Pelosi in OsloBeijing (AFP) — A Uighur group dismissed Beijing's account of a "terrorist attack" in Tiananmen Square as a dubious pretext to repress the ethnic minority Thursday, even as state-run media hinted at potential repercussions.Beijing police said on Wednesday that Usmen Hasan -- in an SUV carrying his mother and wife, jihadist banners...

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This Video Of Chinese Street Food Made From 'Gutter Oil' Is The Most Disgusting Thing You Will See All Day

By Mamta BadkarThe next time you consider eating Chinese street food you might think twice.The use of gutter oil it turns out is pretty common. This refers to a process of pulling waste oil from sewers, grease traps, waste from slaughterhouses, reprocessing it and then selling it as cooking oil.These screenshots from a Radio Free Asia (RFA) video via Max Fisher at The Washington Post show a woman in Shenzhen pulling slop from a gutter.The slop...

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Taiwan demands Apple change map that shows it as part of China

Taiwan "intensely dissatisfied" over application error that places it under the sovereignity of ChinaBy Julian RyallTaiwan has angrily demand that Apple Inc. alter its new map application, which identifies the island nation as a province of China.Users of the iOS 7 and version 10.9 of OS X for the new iPhone and computers have discovered that any search for "Taiwan" automatically produced simplified Chinese characters that read "China Taiwan province."The...

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China’s Spying on Russians by Implanting Chips Into Kettles, Irons

Russian report says Chinese appliances hide Wifi slurping spam-spreadersBy Jordan ValinskyThe Chinese are hacking into electric irons and tea kettles to somehow set off massive spam attacks.In a bizarre report from a Russian-owned television station, the Rossiya 24 version of the I-Team found that Chinese-imported kettles and irons are equipped with "spy chips" that resemble "little microphones." Apparently, the hidden buggers connect via unprotected Wi-Fi networks to a computer within 700 feet and spread viruses. Custom officials have found...

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Australian scientists confirm Chinese horseshoe bats responsible for SARS virus

By Margaret Paul, Cameron BestThe SARS virus appears to have originated in horseshoe bats from China.The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus which killed 774 people originated in horseshoe bats from China, scientists have confirmed.SARS killed nearly 10 per cent of the people it infected during the 2002-2003 pandemic, mainly in China and Hong Kong.A research team, which included scientists from the CSIRO in Geelong, found a very close...

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China’s Expanding Cabbage Strategy

By Harry KazianisIn one of the best pieces on the subject in recent years, the New York Times magazine released what can best be described as an interactive feast regarding the delicate subject of the South China Sea. Beneath all the interactive maps, previously unreleased photos and eye-catching video were some interesting aspects of China’s strategy regarding this disputed area that is sure to be of interest to Asia hands.The article itself...

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Depressed Chinese bachelor cuts his penis off

because it's surplus to requirements then cycles to hospital for treatment (but forgets to take severed organ with him) Daily Mail  Agony: Yang Hu, pictured in hospital, severed his own penis because he thought it was surplus to requirements since he couldn't find a girlfriend A Chinese man frustrated at being single cut off his own penis then, in agony, decided to cycle to a hospital for treatment. When he arrived doctors told him...

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China Patriotism Campaign Backfires in Tibet

by Yeshi DorjeA Chinese national flag is raised outside a residential building in Lhasa.A Chinese government campaign to build patriotism in Tibet appears to have backfired, leading to protests, mass shootings and detentions in a restive area 560 kilometers northeast of Lhasa.Tibetan sources tell VOA that Wu Yingjie, the vice party secretary of Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) started a campaign in August to address the rebellious reputation of Driru...

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No quick fix for China's mistress culture

By Thorsten PattbergThere is something I must tell you about China: It is rather morally creative in the usage of its women.There isn't a hotel, massage parlor, ktv, or conference hall in town that isn't frequented by "little sisters" (xiaojie), escort personnel (baopo), hostesses (peinü), or other types of prostitutes (jinü).There's a name for any relationship a female plaything may fall into:Here are the "second wives" (er laopo), women [who may...

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Kept women

Mistresses are big business in China, where no official is a real man without his own ernai. What’s in it for the girls?by James PalmerA district in Shenzhen has become known as 'Second Wife Village' for the number of mistresses living there. Shanshan’s $550 shoes came from her lover, but the soles of her feet, as hard as leather, came from her childhood. ‘We used to play barefoot in the village,’ she told me. ‘All the girls in the...

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Forging an Art Market in China

By David Barboza, Graham Bowley and Amanda CoxBEIJING -- When the hammer came down at an evening auction during China Guardian’s spring sale in May 2011, “Eagle Standing on a Pine Tree,” a 1946 ink painting by Qi Baishi, one of China’s 20th-century masters, had drawn a startling price: $65.4 million. No Chinese painting had ever fetched so much at auction, and, by the end of the year, the sale appeared to have global implications, helping...

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